Well, all I lost was some negatives and exhibition prints, my parents lost a house and everything in it. Just to put things in proper perspective.
Ciao, Graywolf http://pages.prodigy.net/graywolfphoto ----- Original Message ----- From: "Malcolm Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 12:54 PM Subject: RE: help recovering files in an image after burning a CD > T Rittenhouse wrote: > > > A thing I never seem to see mentioned about archive storage of your images > > is the fact you can keep first generation quality copies of digital images > > at physically diverse locations. For instance you keep one CD in your > > computer room, one in your safe deposit box at the bank, another at your > > cabin in the mountains, another at you mom's house on the other coast, and > > one at a friend's house overseas. There is next to no chance that > > all those > > copies will be simultaneously destroyed. You can keep your > > negatives in only > > one location if something happens to them there they are gone > > forever. I can > > tell you that from first hand experience. > > Graywolf, > > I remember some time back you writing about this horrific tragedy. It is > something I have thought about. As I send my films off to a lab I like for > development, and the majority of the film I use is slide, I get them to send > me a CD with the images on, which periodically get dropped off at my in-laws > in Scotland for safe keeping. They then also have access to the pictures of > our children growing up - a safety net and use. > > Negatives are kept in a *few hours heat resistant small safe - don't know > how many and don't want to find out* but until I acquire a good scanner, > there is no back up for these, and it is something always nagging away at > me. > > A good reminder. Your terrible experience is one I am sure we will all learn > from. > > Thanks, > > Malcolm >
